How Did The Us After Ww2 Change The World

The United States following World War II underwent a transformation that would change its role in the world forever. With the Soviet threat of communism looming over an increasing number of nations’ heads, the United States took on the responsibility of containing communism to stop its spread. In doing this America became a “World Police” patrolling the world and protecting nations from the threat of communism. In order to remain aligned with other democratic nations, for the first time ever, The United States involved itself in the peacetime alliance NATO. The threat of the Soviets also created the desire for covert operations in order to keep an eye on the Soviet’s plans militarily and technologically. This was why the United States created the CIA. During the Cold War, The United States became an influential world power to protect nations from communism, in addition to the creation of new programs in order to stand superior to the Soviets economically, militarily, and technologically. However, when failure abroad began to occur, The United States lost its respect from other nations as a world power.
The role of The United States in the world was very apparent following World War II. The world knew the United States was a force to be reckoned with after the dropping of the Atomic bombs in Japan. President Truman understood the …show more content…
Many historians note that it was not until Reagan that the Cold War began to heat up again; however, The United States made up some lost ground as a world power during Carter’s Presidency when the Soviets failed to defeat the Afghan Mujahedeen revolt and were forced to leave Afghanistan. This can be seen as very similar to The United States’ failure to destroy the North Vietnamese and after the Soviets left Afghanistan they lost a similar amount of respect as a world power that the United States did following